FontStruct: Everybody's a Typographer?

I was a tad excited to see that there's an online software/interactive system that allows you to develop types without downloading some Trial version of a huge software onto your system. I personally don't know much about Typography, I admire it, and I think if I delve into it I'll be hugely interested yet I still didn't get to this point - still an illustration sucker.

The website FontShop, one of the leading Fonts/Typography networks out there created FontStruct - a website that allows you to build, share and download fonts created using "FontStructor"; Developed by Rob Meek.

So I went ahead, signed up to the site and started fiddling around until to my surprise I see that they support a number of different languages/letter sets. And ta-da! There lies "Arabic". I clicked on it and started looking at the set of letters they had, though it included characters which would never be used in Arabic scripts but still, I quite liked it! Though some characters didn't show up to me.

Here's my trial, but then to find out I've added a hamza to a hamza-less Alef! Forgiveness, I'm erasing the hamza!

(click to enlarge)

I think it's quite revolutionary to be honest, I'm clueless if such projects been created before (and if so, please inform me) but I really like the whole feel to FontStruct and I believe it's a good

platform for budding Typographers - and even those who just have general interest - to develop and get good exposure.

Go ahead, fiddle with it, and make it your daily meal of font creation :)

Captain Abu Raed's Website

Been working on it for quite a while, as far as I remember it was ever since 23rd of November. I was very delighted to be part of the huge Jordanian feature film and it's amazing team- as I designed the Official website of Captain Abu Raed :)

I'm really happy with the feedback I got so far, as the most important one concerned - Amin - gave me a really good feedback and I'm more than super duper happy with it. As I quote him "In the meantime, thanks to Omar Al-Zo'bi, we have a new official web site with a slick polished look. He did a beautiful job."

The website is still going under slight modifications and I do realise the images can be loaded quite slow at some connection speeds but in order to maintain the quality of the JPEG's, no way to compress them (i.e. uglify them). A Flash preloaded will be uploaded soon enough for you to view it better ;D

Anyway, I hope you guys like it as well! :)

everything of the day

Word of the day:

when you're too dumb enough to know the difference between Speak and Talk, or you just like to be 'special' - you can use the verb "Spalk". Spalked is the past tense. You can also use it to take the piss out on people who can't say "R" and say "L" instead, but these groups of people would either be Japanese or small kids. So yeah. Spalk.

Video of the day:

Little Miss Jocelyn's bitter man-hater old Jamaican woman character would seriously get you laughing so hard - well at least it did with me. Da Only ting dat iz nat in Raymand is a KNIFE :D


Song of the day:

Fax by Noa (aka supertalented)

i love the fact that her music isn't over-polished with fancy effects and such. And i love her broken accent, it all adds up to her quirky style of music - as it's obvious from writing a song about communication technology. Ah, aren't we all fascinated with faxes?

Photo of the day:

me, myself and the rain - Hiba Judeh

beautiful bokeh, i'm absolutely in love with Hiba's photograph especially the little detail of the droplet shown.

Link of the day:

Learn dem London Slang, Bruv!

Blog of the day:

OK, bad me - I edited the image and tossed in colours and a sloppy logo on this. Anyway, Lebanese Graffiti is a really interesting blog, as it closely observes the rise of Graffiti underground culture in Lebanon. Run by Jo (sans "e" as he demands).

Logo of the day:

INDIE, logo designed by the amazingly talented Yeah Yeah! - I absolutely fell in love with it a while ago (still am) especially with it's application on a magazine cover. Geniusly geometric.

that's it for today, come back another day :)

Threadless, for the 5th time

Yup! Another submission after a long while - I really hope that it doesn't drop from the competition because its much more painful than getting not printed. So yeah, wish me to at least complete the 7 days of voting and if possible vote for me :)

The t-shirt is based on a work of mine, Sketch illustration:

Thank you in advance, and to whoever voted I really really appreciate it! :D

wtf factor?

Since when Arabs are Creamy white and Sudanis are patchy brown?
Good concept, TERRIBLE finishing :/ Doubled male character with long hair, and pointless Spidey-web veil of a short haired woman?

that's DEFINITELY a WTF factor!

*Burp*

Howdie Y'all!
Miss me? So do I. hehe

I'm feeling like 50% better now cause there's a bit I was supposed to work on in my assignment, I finished just today. Yet still I need to meet with other freakin' team members to finish it. Oh don't you just love endless rant? Yeah that's my ranty bit. Well if you're wondering, no I didn't hit a building's window and took a photo of it, I did something sillier :P

here's my lest:

1. Biggest highlight of the week, would be that my dear friend Rawan and I did a mini session!
2. What to do when you have an assignment and you don't feel like working on it? Watch this, damn I love it.
3. I want one of these cool-ass Ammani style signs customised for myself! :D
4. You know when Bullcrap reaches it's climax? You can still stop it though.
5. Oh wow, great trick. Oh and another one? Great, now I wanna know how to murder someone and get away with it
6. Who said Air-rubs have no fun old culture? These are so interesting they remind me of my old days in Tapar de Poure.
   
7. I would seriously like to have these as a nice collection. Any idea where to get them from?
8. I lurve this game, it's so addictive!
9. and I thought I was the only one who have fun with the squirty squirts!
10. HAHA, very funny... NOT!
11. I can seriously tell she's winning the competition! Althought I want her to win!
12. I laughed for 10 whole minutes because of this!
13. Scary, what happened to this person?
14. Another scary thing. I seriously don't know what is this individual is suffering.
15. Watch "The Winner" a nice new show. One of the executive producers is Seth MacFarlane.
16. Now this is one good blog, especially the juicy "Sample Wednesday" posts! :D
17. Who doesn't love a nice new bunch of featured Uber cool Photographers?
1. Jamie Nelson
2. Richard Reinsdorf
3. Patrick Hoelck
4. Emanuele Sironi
5. Mario Sorrenti
18. This is probably the most fun thing I could do! haha
19. Excellent DIY tutorials for budding, stingy photographers.
20. With their ASX to MP3 converter. I almost get ANY song from this place and into my iPod!
21. Stop, Hammertime
22. I like these kinda videos. The tune turns out to be great.
23. Strawberries & Cream from Starbucks is heavenly. And here's a proof.

thank you for reading, yeah right.

I wanna go to...

TOKYOOOOOOOOOO!
*cries*

It's not like i'm a big fanatic of Anime, Video Games, Sushi or being a Harajuku wannabe but I sure would love to visit a place where it's DRENCHED with culture no matter how different it is. I mean, that's the point of visiting places, right? You don't wanna go to Guadalajara for example and look for the golden arches, would you?

I've been eating too much Peanut Butter, I need to quit! haha.
Again with the usual listy list, it's been a while. Eh?

1. Probably one of the best designed websites in my point of view
2. And this would be one of the best customised YouTube profiles.
3. If it's not for the girl with somehow a car's name, I would marry her. HAHA, hilarious!
   
4. Who would've thought this chick ends up in one of the best comedy shows ever?
5. Excellent, Excellent, Excellent. Love this huge archive over almost 5 years.
6. I like sites mentioned in media, and what I like more is to actually find something.
7. I'm sad New Jersey didn't win, but I loved ANTM Cycle 7.5!
8. Nothing's better than an official Parody, and nothing's better than Zeroes!
9. I think HE should get a life, she walked away a winner. Psh, college peeps.
10. I'm really wishing it's no flunk, but Christina Ricci can't go wrong.
11. They say Country music is bad, but these always prove me wrong. I love this song.
12. Now that's another example of how stupid and cruel humans can be. WHY snatch it off it's habitat?
13. I want one of these, is it real or what?
14. Like living in a surreal Gotham movie, excellent! People are seriously acing this. Photo at top is another example.
15. Wow, I think I qualify as a nerd. Well i match all except 8, 2 and 1.
16. If I'd ever obtain a MAC set, this would definitely be my desk.
17. Since I wanna go to Tokyo, I wanna try spending one night in one of these!

At the end of this, it seems I wanna be anywhere but here...

The Bald and The Frightful

She needs to match something else. haha, i like it.

No I'm Not Dead

Yes, I'm not dead. And I said it out a la '70s style as seen above. I really feel guilty towards my blog, I guess it died when Jordan Planet decided it's no long in function. How can you shut down a whole planet? Fuse kahraba? Eh. I'm impressed with the efforts of fellow bloggers in trying to keep up the community through two quite successful aggregators.

So, what's been going on with me? Is it possible for life to progress in a more interesting manner? I don't believe so. Grefet, I'm bored of the whole routine although I try with all my forces to break it. Bass what the hell. I'm being a tad better student this semester than the first one, attending lectures and labs and such. First semester was a total lazy time, started off with Ramadan and all. What else, I'll provide you with a yummy list now:

1. I finally got it, the Canon 350D. I should thank God that I am capable of getting what I want. so Al hamdulillah.
2. Although you might understand NOTHING, maybe "camera", but this is such a great video to show a trick used in magic.
3. It's such a joy to find the website of someone who you always liked their work.
4. This represents me in my best forms, haha.
5. I can watch this video FOREVER! haha
6. Have you ever saw a full circle rainbow?
7. Ain't nobody beats that! HEEHEEE, Billy Jean *aiwa*.
8. I didn't believe it when I read it, but it seriously worked!
9. Please pray for me for the thing to work! :(
10. HAHA, Gate of the Hood! hahaha
11. Now this is what I call "creativity".
12. I like this website, you get some good catches!
13. You'll be charmed, I know. Just pull yourself together. *muffled laugh*
14. Now that's VERY cruel! Screw you, Hotels.
15. 1 freakin' reason not to be the biggest fan of this man. Improvised!
16. I wish I could have this masterpiece in a big frame, *sigh*.
17. I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?
18. Rebekka is probably the best one in cloning herself.
19. Probably slowest loading website, but REALLY useful and informative.
20. I thought I missed this one, But I didnt! Weeeheeeww!
21. This can be really useful for Flickr users. Don't you just LOVE Greasmonkey?
22. Tyrannosaurus loves her mama!
23. Join us down in Ureedo An Al3aba Bel 7ara, where we remember our old culture in Amman!
24. A really interesting touristy video for Jordan, by Visit Jordan.
25. AH! A classic remake of the classic addictive game.